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Tucked away in the vibrant heart of Midtown Oklahoma City, James E. McNellie’s Public House has become a destination worth crossing county lines for – drawing hungry pilgrims from Tulsa to Lawton and ...
Three candidates are vying for the open Cherokee Nation District 5 seat on the Tribal Council, which covers the northern half ...
The late Ed Wheeler, a retired Oklahoma National Guard brigadier general and former Tulsa Community College history ...
Mayor Nichols is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 left an indelible scar on the Greenwood District, once known as Black Wall Street. Hundreds of Black residents were ...
Freeman mentioned, “What I would like to see happen is going back to our ancestors, our great-granddaddys, great-grandmamas what they did for the Tulsa, Oklahoma Black Wall Street, how they ...
Often referred to as “Black Wall Street,” Greenwood was once a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, until May 31, 1921, when a white mob, many affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan ...
In a historic and powerful ride for change, cyclists will pedal 1,645 miles across the United States, starting from the iconic Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the financial epicenter of Wall ...
Tulsa came into existence in the 1820s when the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee peoples were forced out of Georgia and Alabama and into the Oklahoma Indian Territory. The trading ...
Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District in his book “Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District.” In the early 1900s, the Greenwood ...
Odewale is from Tulsa, Oklahoma ... white mob killed innocent Black people and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses in the wealthy area known as Black Wall Street. Some 10,000 Black families ...
Split in two by a highway—as communities of color often are—the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was once known as America’s Black Wall Street. At the start of the 20th century ...